14/05/2024 | President
Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) President Theodoros Rousopoulos strongly condemned the attacks on civil society activists, media representatives and members of the opposition, as well as the use of disproportionate force by the police against peaceful demonstrators who oppose the...
07/05/2024 | President
Theodoros Rousopoulos, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will make a working visit to Austria on 14-15 May. In Vienna, he will meet the Speaker of the Austrian National Council as well as the Director of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA). On 15 May, Mr...
30/04/2024 | President
As part of the project “Support for the development of the role of Parliament in the consolidation of democracy in Morocco 2020-2024”, financed by the European Union and implemented by the Council of Europe, the Parliament of the Kingdom of Morocco and PACE today organised a seminar to close...
27/04/2024 | President
The President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Theodoros Rousopoulos, and the Speaker of the Senate of the Parliament of Kazakhstan, Maulen Ashimbayev, today made the following joint statement on the 20th Anniversary of the signing of the Agreement on Cooperation...
25/04/2024 | President
Theodoros Rousopoulos, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will make a working visit to Morocco on 29-30 April. In Rabat, he will meet the Speakers of the two Houses of the Moroccan Parliament, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and other members of the...
22/04/2024 | President
PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos has expressed his sadness at the death of Baroness Doreen E. Massey, a long-standing member of the Assembly from the United Kingdom and a champion of children’s rights. “Baroness Massey was a deeply committed and active member of our Parliamentary Assembly...
16/04/2024 | President
The President of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), Theodoros Rousopoulos, yesterday requested the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) for an urgent opinion on the compliance with Council of Europe standards of the Georgian draft law on Transparency...
15/04/2024 | President
“Ukraine needs our support and not just words – it needs right now the vital munitions which will allow it to continue to defend itself, to defend us all and to defend the most fundamental right of all laid down in the European Convention on Human Rights – the right of people to life,” PACE...
20/03/2024 | President
Following yesterday's decision by the International Olympic Committee not to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to participate in the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, and responding to a call by Ukraine’s Olympic Champions* urging PACE’s continued support for a total ban on...
17/03/2024 | President
Following the Presidential election in Russia, PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos today made the following statement: "Some minutes ago, the polling stations in the so-called ‘elections’ in the Russian Federation closed and the exit polls announced the projections. And there was little surprise...
12/03/2024 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos has urged more effective and properly institutionalised co-operation between the United Nations and the Council of Europe during a meeting yesterday in New York with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who is a former member of PACE. Such co-operation would...
07/03/2024 | President
To mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos has recalled the global challenge of violence against women. “Let us remember that violence against women in all their diversity continues to be the most widespread human rights violation worldwide,” he said...